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Promnitz joins IFSA board

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
Peter Promnitz, chief executive at Mercer (Australia) and region head of Asia Pacific Mercer, has joined the Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA) as a director. He replaces Jeremy Duffield, who resigned from the association's board to ...

SocGen exec quits after insider trading probe

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
SociA(C)tA(C) GA(C)nA(C)rale's long-standing executive committee member Jean-Pierre Mustier has resigned following a French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) probe into insider trading. Mustier, who had been at the firm for 22 years, agreed he would ...

How planners can cope with redundancy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
Dealer group Financial Services Partners (FSP) partners with work/balance author Andrew May to publish a book that attempts to help planners cope with redundancy. The book comes at a time when planning firms are forced to make staff redundant as their ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to everyone and all! Except for the grinch bears that is. Yes, Virginia. Christmas came in July. Hope and cheer abounded in equity markets around the globe and in other risk assets. How could they not? Slow - painfully ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower on Monday, falling from an almost nine-month high, after subdued stock performances on US markets and declines in Europe on Friday. At 0727 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
The Australian sharemarket is likely to open flat on Tuesday following a mixed lead from Wall Street and futures pointing down slightly. At 0705 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was down one point at 3,748. ...

AvSuper appoints JANA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2009
The $805 million AvSuper has appointed JANA Investment Advisers Pty Ltd as the fund's investment consultant. The appointment follows a benchmarking review of various investment consultants. AVSuper's previous asset consultant was Russell Investment ...

City Pacific still in RE bind

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
BalmainTRILOGY has lodged a notice with ASIC under the Corporations Act requiring the regulator to register Trilogy as the new responsible entity of the City Pacific First Mortgage Fund. Before the unitholders meeting last Thursday (June 25), City Pacific ...

Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
See my finger? Yes, the middle one. No. The statement is not to gloat about Wall Street's overnight jump proving my call for a continuation of the equity market uptrend correct. Speaking of which, America's major stock market indexes jumped 2 per cent ...

Refreshing pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Sellers...you've been warned. Given the magnitude of yesterday's decline on Wall Street, it was almost inevitable that stocks in Australia and the Asian region would succumb to gravity. Pause that refreshes. Overnight action on the Street confirmed ...